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Culbone

Culbone proper noun: a hamlet in Oare parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS8448).

Proper noun

Culbone

  1. A hamlet in Oare parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS8448).
    • There is a local rhyme which says:
      Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero
      Are three such places as you seldom hear o'.
      Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)]...1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 302, about Oare

Questions about Culbone

What does Culbone mean?
Culbone means a hamlet in Oare parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS8448).
What part of speech is Culbone?
Culbone is a proper noun.

Words near Culbone in the dictionary

  1. Culberson
  2. Culberson County
  3. Culbert
  4. Culberts
  5. Culbertson
  6. Culbone
  7. Culbreath
  8. Culbreaths
  9. Culbreth
  10. Culbreths
  11. Culburra Beach

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